February 2016

I had to laugh. During the 2016 Democratic Primary Campaign, Chelsea Clinton made a hilarious slip of the tongue. In comparing Bernie Sanders to her mother, instead of referring to him as Senator Sanders, she called him President Sanders. Of course, she immediately reversed...

It’s as simple and as daunting as that. On the eve of this year’s Valentine’s Day, here’s a thought about love. Staying together during the good times is easy; it seems to me that the true test of love comes when times get tough. The lengths to which...

The 20th century philosopher , Billy Joel, once said: “The King and the Queen went back to the green but you can never go back there again”. No truer words have ever been spoken. Some members of my therapy groups are stuck in the past. They long to re-creat...

Freud may have said: “Psychoanalysis is, in essence, a cure through love”, but Tina Turner said: “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”. As a psychotherapist with over thirty-five years experience, I believe love is not enough. While I agree with Dr....

Joe enjoyed being around kids, but only if they were other people’s kids. He loved the spontaneity of children, their humor, inquisitiveness and innocent wisdom but he was terrified of having children of his own. That was because he feared repeating his own childhood...

I was gratified to read Oliver Burkeman’s essay in the Guardian, “The Revenge of Freud”. According to him, recent research seems to indicate what I suspected all along. Over the long haul, psychoanalysis trumps “Train Your Brain”-type therapy. ...